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7 BOOK. No. 285,794. Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

EDWARD L. BURWELL, or oHELsEA, MAsSAoHusETTs.

BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,794, dated October 2, 1883.

Application filed July 31,1882. (M'odeL) To all whom it may concern.-

, Be it known that I, EDWARD L. BURWELL, of Chelsea, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Books, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to a book or block of leaves, and is especially intended to be used by railroads in connection with the checks given upon the payment of cash-fare. The said book consists of a series of similar sets of three leaves each, the lower leaf of each set being of cardboard or thick stiff paper, the intermediate one being of transfer or impression paper having its blackened or carbonized surface in contact with the said thick leaf, and the third leaf being a sheet of ordinary writing-paper suitable to be written upon with a pencil. The said thick and writing sheets may be printed with correspondingblank forms, if desired, and the writing in pencil upon the thin or writing sheet of paper is reproduced by the sheet of transfer-paper upon thethiek sheet belonging to thesame set, the said thick sheet being sufficiently stiff to prevent the transfer of the writing into the sets of sheets beneath. Each set, when thus filled out or written upon, is detached from the block or stub, and the two written sheets given to different persons, while the sheet of transfetpa .per for the said set is thrown away.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book or block embodying this invention, and Fig. 2 a section of one of the sets of sheets.

The block A is herein shown as intended for the checks such as given by railroads to passengers upon the payment of a fare in the cars by cash, instead of by a ticket bought at the re ular offices of the road, the said cheeks being intended as an indication of the number of such fares received by the conductor.

The book A consists of a series of sets of sheets, each set comprising a sheet, a, of cardboard or thick stiff paper, an intermediate sheet, I), of transfer-paper, and an ordinary flexible sheet, 0, of writing-paper, (see Fig. 2,) the said sheets a andc being printed in blank, with spaces forthe date, the stations between which the fare was paid, for the amount of the fare, and name of the conductor. When a cash-fare is paid, the conductor fills out the blank, writing in pencil upon the uppersheet,

sheets is torn off or detached from the book or block, the sheet I) of the transfer-paper then being thrown away, and one of the other sheets, a or a, given to the passenger, and the other retained by the conductor. The said check or sheet given to the passenger will be redeemed at the office of the company, the excess of cashfare over the regular-tieket fare being returned to the passenger, and by comparison of the sheet thus returned by the passenger with the one given up by the conductor it will be seen whether or not the conductor has given the proper return for cash received by him.

The sets of sheets may be united or bound together in a block or book in any usual manner, as by glue or paste along one or more edges of the sheet-s, or,by sewing, as indicated at 2, in which latter case the shee ts will be perforated or have their fiber brol'zen, as shown at 3, to enable them to be readily detached or torn off from the sewed stub. The block is shown as provided with an elastic band, B, to retain the leaves together until written upon and detached, and the said sets of leaves, being each complete in itself, form a very convenient and rapid method of providing complete duplicate memoranda of the transactions.

The thick sheets a are made slightly longer than the other sheets, I) 0, thus affording a tongue, as shown at a", Fig. 1, by which the thick sheet of the upper set is easily engaged by the operator, and readily torn off with the overlying sheets I) c at a single operation, this construction obviating the danger of accidentally detaching one or more of the underlying thin sheets belonging to the next set, as might easily happen if the sheets a b a were all of the, same size. The same result might be effected by having a recess in IOO By having the leaves of transfer-p aper bound in between the leaves of thick and thin paper with which they are to be used,the convenience and rapidity of operation is much greater than in a book in which a single piece of transfer paper is to be used with all the sheets of writingpaper, it having to be inserted between the proper leaves at each act of writing.

The herein-described book can be operated with as great rapidity as the blanks can be filled out and single sheets torn off, since no time is lost in separating the sheet for the insertion of the transfer-paper, nor in separating the set of leaves that is to be detached from the others.

I claim- 1. A book or block composed of a number of sets of leaves, each set being composed of a bottom thick leaf, a, a superposed carbon or transfer leaf, 1), and a top writing-paper leaf, 0, connected together, substantially as shown and described.

2. The series of sets of leaves a b 0, made up in book form and separable as sets, the thick member a of the set having the extension 0/, as shown and described,'and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the prgsence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD L. BURWELL.

Witnesses:

J os. P. LIVERMORE, W. H. SIGSTON. 

